Campus Resources

ADA Information & Resources

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The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in employment, transportation, public accommodation, communications, and governmental activities. 

Career Support Resources

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The T. Rowe Price Career and Innovation Center empowers all students to design their career journey through innovation. They have gathered affinity resources for students focused on careers. The pages include job search resources, networking tools, and other campus and community resources. 

Excel Language Center

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The Excel Language Center provides a supportive environment focused on academic achievement, language skills acquisition and development, the celebration of cultural diversity, and a space for inclusive community building. Whether you are a new language student or already in the process of learning a language, the LC is dedicated to making language learning resources easily accessible to you. Check out our website for more information

 

Faculty Assembly

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All faculty at UCCS are part of the Faculty Assembly. There are many active committees within the Faculty Assembly that meet on issues and concerns that are important to the UCCS community, including sustainability, research, inclusion, and more. Follow the link below to see the full list of committees.

Faculty Resource Center

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Empowering faculty and supporting high-quality inclusive teaching and learning experiences by continuously fostering relationships, providing proactive leadership on effective educational practice, cultivating innovative learning technology use, and furnishing meaningful consultation, resources, and training to benefit the entire UCCS community. The FRC website hosts resources and opportunities for professional development.

HR Policies

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The University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) is committed to maintaining an environment free from sexual misconduct, discrimination or harassment based on race, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy, age, disability, creed, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, political affiliation, or political philosophy.

Kraemer Family Library

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The Kraemer Family Library acknowledges and commits to promoting awareness of and sensitivity to human differences.  The Library recognizes its unique role in helping promote diversity by acquiring resources that strengthen the University’s efforts to promote learning and education in the areas of diversity and multicultural studies.  The Library’s collection must reflect this commitment by supporting research and study that enhances knowledge of our pluralistic society.  Furthermore, the Library provides the UCCS community with equitable access to all of its information resources and services. This access is guaranteed without regard to race, color, gender, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, or class.

Lyda Hill Institute for Human Resilience

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The mission of the Lyda Hill Institute for Human Resilience is to advance human resilience to adversity by designing evidence-based solutions through interdisciplinary research, healing therapies, and community training and empowerment. This is accomplished through the work of our three divisions: Research, Healing, and Community Training & Empowerment. 

Matrix Center

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Through partnerships, outreach, research, institutes, conferences, leadership coaching, and other diversity services, the Center bridges the gap between university and diverse communities to examine real world problems and contribute to the advancement of real world solutions. They offer two signature programs: The Knapsack Institute: Transforming Teaching and Learning, and a Graduate Certificate in Diversity, Social Justice and Inclusion

Mountain Lion Connect

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Moutain Lion Connect (MLC) is the university's campus calendar and place for connection. All events, major and minor, are posted to MLC. Students, staff, and faculty can utilize this resource to find programs and connect with departments on campus. Students can use MLC to find all active student organizations and attend their events. 

Project Crest

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This ADVANCE Adaptation project utilizes evidence-based practices to enhance the research capacity and opportunity of women-identified faculty (hereafter referred to as women for brevity) in STEM while staying attuned to women’s unique intersecting identities to help identify and remedy past, current and future inequities. Project CREST: Changing Research Experiences, Structures, and (in)Tolerance through the Adaptation of Promising Equity Practices will transform the University of Colorado Colorado Springs  (UCCS) by adapting practices from ADVANCE IT.

Research, Inequity, and Social Justice Resources

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At UCCS, we fuel success by actively researching and providing resources on a variety of issues, including inequity and social injustice. With these resources, we hope to expand the perspectives of Mountain Lions and spark informed conversations and motivate actions that will create substantial and lasting change that improves our UCCS community.

Staff Council

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The UCCS Staff Council believes valued and empowered staff who engage as their best selves are successful personally and professionally. In everything we do, the Staff Council creates meaningful connections, recognition, and self enhancement in a fun and supportive environment, so that members of the UCCS community stay and thrive. Staff Council hosts a number of commitees that organize campus-wide events such as the Spring Luncheon, Spring Enrichment Day, the annual blood drive, Winter Giving Project, and more.